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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1900
Page
2
Fragmentary notice outlines a travel timetable with departures and arrivals in the morning and afternoon. It references a sleeper coach and routes involving Bam Minnespolo, indicating a travel schedule or timetable fragment for a Sunday in September.
In Jericho a crowd at the post office hears Deacon Spooner call for both sides on installing a lightning rod at the 13 year old schoolhouse. Silas Lapham, Enos Williams, Moses and others offer views about cost, taxation, and safety as the town weighs a $38 proposal to ward off strikes, with a neutral stance from Lish Billings and a final vote implied.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune item recounts a simple tale of a sheep in a green field. A man washes the sheep in a pond and later shears its wool, then the sheep is released nearly naked as wool becomes yarn for babies socks in town.
A Utica observer notes Little Dean a four year old who says he has three tongues one in his mouth and one in each shoe during a car ride with his aunt. The humor contrasts with other light verse yarning about willow and travel and a prankish remark about powder on a battleship.
A survey of charms among Chinese and Shan people in Yunnan notes amulets and a painful tattooing path to invulnerability. It mentions a dragon nest talisman for fire safety and a female deer horn aiding endurance, and a Western skeptic’s test with a revolver. It also recalls the first national conventions by the Anti Masonic party in Baltimore 1831 and the Democrats in 1882, plus a colorful wedding invitation from Liberty County.
Corporal John Trustrum of the Royal Horse Artillery, a New York boy, recounts how a plug of tobacco in his breeches saved his life after a Mauser bullet shattered his horse and wounded his thigh at Kupkraal on May 3. He recalls the ambulance to Bloemfontein, the surgeon’s verdict, and his hope to return to the front in two weeks. The 21-year-old corporal is praised for character and rapid promotion as his family looks to his safe return.
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